Originally posted by MANDOBLE
My second statement is based in the plane type, not in the pilot.
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No, part of your second statement is based on plane type. The other part derives from an inappropriate generalization.
Where is the interest into having a 400/0 K/D ratio flying 262?
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Flown conservatively, the 262 becomes completely untouchable by anything in the arena including other 262s. It packs more punch, more speed, better zoom, etc. than anything else in AH. So yes, you're right that a massive K/D ratio in a 262 shouldn't come as any surprise.
Where is the interest into having a 0.0050 K/T ratio flying spit?
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This statement, however, does not compare to the former. The Spit may be a good furball plane, but it's ridiculous to assume that Spits alone allow for high K/T. Zekes turn better, N1ks and Ki-61s compare favorably in all respects, 205s are faster, 262s and Yak-9Ts have better guns, etc. Explain to me exactly how a Spit becomes "untouchable" in K/T in the same way a 262 becomes "untouchable" for K/D. You just can't compare.
In addition, the numbers simply don't bear out your generalization of the simplicity of flying a Spit and acruing a high K/T. I looked up the K/T for four players I would consider hot sticks in the Spit IX/V, and their K/T ranged from 0.0025 to 0.0031. Only one of them matched your own K/T, MANDOBLE, and yet they flew the Amazing Collosal Spit of Fast Killing +5.
Pick up any spit pilot, put him into a P47 and give him so drugs to increase his agressiveness, after a tour, check his K/T.
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So now you're suggesting that someone who grabs a P-47 and flies it into furballs as if it were a Spit would suffer a decrease in K/T? Duh. OTOH, stick an aggressive, good player into a P-47 and he or she will fly to the strengths of the P-47 even in a furball environment. I expect K/T would go down initially and then go back up again as the player became more comfortable with the new ride.
K/T and H/P and 50% dependent on the plane type while K/D and K/S are 100% dependent on the pilot style.
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I don't think there's a formula to this which is as easy as you're trying to make it. Like I've said, all stats should be taken with a grain of salt because it's easy to manipulate them by flying in certain ways.
So, I'm not suggesting that he was exceptionally bad in the spit due low K/T, in fact I have no idea about his K/T. He has his flying style and it seems he was good with it.
But you've suggested that a K/T of 0.0050 (LOL... do you realize how incredibly hard it would be to achieve that in any plane?) should be par for the course for Spits, so anything under that we'll consider a disappointment.
-- Todd/Leviathn
